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I suppose books mean more than people to me anyway
F. Scott Fitzgerald
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F. Scott Fitzgerald
Age: 43 †
Born: 1897
Born: September 24
Died: 1940
Died: December 21
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St Paul
Minnesota
Francis Scott Fitzgerald
Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald
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France was a land, England was a people, but America, having about it still that quality of the idea, was harder to utter - it was the graves at Shiloh and the tired, drawn, nervous faces of its great men, and the country boys dying in the Argonne for a phrase that was empty before their bodies withered. It was a willingness of the heart.
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he used to think that he wanted to be good, he wanted to be kind, he wanted to be brave and wise, but it was all pretty difficult. He wanted to be loved, too, if he could fit it in.
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The farmers may be the backbone of the country, but who wants to be a backbone?
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Men get to be a mixture of the charming mannerisms of the women they have known.
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Human sympathy has its limits, and we were contented to let all their tragic arguments fade with the city lights behind.
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If you're in love it ought to make you happy. You ought to laugh.
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She knew few words and believed in none.
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He was handsome then if never before, bound for one of those immortal moments which come so radiantly that their remembered light is enough to see by for years.
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Long ago, there was something in me, but now that thing is gone. Now that thing is gone, that thing is gone. I cannot cry. I cannot care. That thing will come back no more.
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The rich are different from us.
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The officer looked at Daisy while she was speaking, in a way that every young girl wants to be looked at sometime, and because it seemed romantic to me I have remembered the incident ever since.
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I suppose the latest thing is to sit back and let Mr. Nobody from Nowhere make love to your wife.
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Better let it all alone in the depths of her heart and the depths of the sea.
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Talk English to me, Tommy. Parlez francais avec moi, Nicole. But the meanings are different-- in French you can be heroic and gallant with dignity, and you know it. But in English you can't be heroic and gallant without being a little absurd, and you know that too. That gives me an advantage.
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There's no substitute for will. Sometimes you have to fake will when you don't feel it at all.
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I thought of Gatsby's wonder when he first picked out the green light at the end of Daisy's dock. He had come a long way to this lawn and his dream must have seemed so close that he could hardly fail to grasp it. He did not know that it was already behind him. [- Nick Carroway]
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People living alone get used to loneliness.
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Selfish people are in a way terribly capable of great loves.
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Kiss me now, love me now.
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An author ought to write for the youth of his own generation, the critics of the next, and the schoolmaster of ever afterwards.
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